Tom Scrope

Tom Scrope

2025

Tom Scrope is a 2024 Nuffield Scholar exploring how farmer groups can drive better soil management. His travels have taken him across three continents and 6,500 miles to learn from pioneering farmers, facilitators and researchers. Tom is also co-founder of software platform Soil Benchmark, now used on over 10% of England’s farmland.

Farming Together: Grower Groups around the world

Breakout Tent

Grower groups – when well run – can transform soil management practices on large numbers of farms much more quickly and effectively than many other methods of knowledge exchange. More and more of them are appearing in the UK. But often they runout of steam – or funding – before they can have an impact. […]

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